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CorridorCamp16
aka #UKGC16 I have a little confession. I am terrible at BarCamps. Really bad at them. I have attended more than my share of them over the years and 100% believe they are brilliant, mind-altering, status quo challenging necessities for our community. I am just rubbish at them. Saturday was my sixth Govcamp I think — I…
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whither Web of Words
I’ve been circling around an idea for an event about blogs and blogging for a couple of years now. I wrote about it back in early 2014 and despite some shenanigans have managed to hold on to the domain webofwords.org for even longer. 2015 seemed like a bit of a comeback for individuals publishing on…
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More Tigger than Tiger
Andrew Greenway has written an interesting post in defence of the ‘senior civil service’. I don’t have much to say directly about what he has written — my experience with the SCS is primarily limited to those I know at ONS and a few I’ve known and know at GDS. Even with that narrow a perspective I…
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Innovate or sigh: are ‘labs’ helpful?
The ONS was in the news again recently and while the website got away unscathed for a change it didn’t make for comfortable reading. The criticism from Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, follows on from the initial findings of the Bean Review into Economic Statistics which while even handed was itself…